Soft Kill

(A protest ballad starring psychiatric patients, Katy Perry, Madonna, Britney Spears, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Lauryn Hill, Sinéad O’Connor, and Angelina Jolie)

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Verse 1 – Katy Perry

“They gave me colors in a pill,
Said it would paint my rainbow still.
But I feel grey, I feel erased,
My smile is plastic, my soul displaced.”

Verse 2 – Madonna

“Decades dancing under lights,
Now I’m stumbling through the nights.
The doctors whisper, ‘swallow, chill,’
But I know it’s just a soft kill.”

Chorus – All Together

Soft kill, silent thrill,
Poison in the bottle they call a pill.
We were born to sing, we were born to feel,
But the Psychlos came with a soft kill.

Verse 3 – Britney Spears

“My freedom stolen in a cage,
Medicated through the stage.
Every heartbeat slowed at will,
Every dream drowned by the soft kill.”

Verse 4 – Selena Gomez & Demi Lovato (duet)

Selena: “They said the sickness was in my head…”
Demi: “But the poison runs in my blood instead.”
Together:
“Angels fall when the silence stills,
Chained by the hands of the soft kill.”

Verse 5 – Lauryn Hill

“I see Babylon’s medicine trade,
Every prophet, every singer betrayed.
Truth is bitter, but truth must spill,
Or we’ll all be lost to the soft kill.”

Verse 6 – Sinéad O’Connor

“They shaved my soul like they shaved my head,
Fed me pills ‘til my voice was dead.
But rage survives, it burns, it will—
No Psychlo wins with a soft kill.”

Verse 7 – Angelina Jolie

“I wore their mask, I played their role,
But the poison crept into my soul.
Now I fight for the ones they still try to still,
Every patient marked for the soft kill.”

Final Chorus – All Together

Soft kill, silent thrill,
Poison in the bottle they call a pill.
We were born to sing, we were born to feel,
But the Psychlos came with a soft kill.

(Music fades with whispered voices: “We remember… we resist… we are still alive.”)